Open source machine learning software vendor PredictionIO has announced it is to become part of Salesforce. The Palo Alto start up has stressed that the software will continue to be available under an open source Apache license.

PredictionIO, a startup providing machine learning technologies for a range of applications has secured $2.5m in funding. The company’s co-founder and chief executive officer Simon Chan told Business Cloud News that the funding will make PredictionIO “the MySQL of prediction.”